The Dukays
by Lajos Zilahy
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The Dukays are the oldest aristocratic family in Hungary, and this is the tale of their inexorable decline after the First World War. It is the story of Zia Dukay, youngest of Count Dupi's daughters, a modern girl born into feudal splendor in the immense family castle of Ararat, and married with medieval pomp. Not since Scarlett O'Hara has there been so courageous a heroine, so determined to survive the wreck of family fortunes with the man she loves. It is also the story of Zia's sister show more Christina, romantically involved with the deposed Hapsburg king; of her brother Georgy, who leaves for America; and of Janos, who becomes a Nazi. Told in great richness of detail, The Dukays is a tumultuous and sweeping saga. Lajos Zilahy is the leading Hungarian novelist of the 20th century; among his books are Two Prisoners and Century in Scarlet. show lessTags
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Imagine the story of a Hungarian family -- several generations thereof -- told with the same kind of emotional and sexual flapdoodle some of us associate with TOBACCO ROAD and FOREVER AMBER. Compariosn are odious, I know. . . but sometimes they are irresistible.
Ésta es la historia, durante los conflictivos años que siguieron a la Primera Guerra Mundial, de la bella Kristina, del inquietante János, del valiente György, y sobre todo de la exquisita Zia, la más joven de las hijas del conde Dupi, nacida en el inmenso castillo de Ararat en una época de esplendor.
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Gallimard, Folio (3364)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Dukays
- Original title
- Rézmetszet alkonyat
- Original publication date
- 1949
- Dedication
- To the memory of my sister Ica
- First words
- The Bells of the stubby, hexagonal medieval steeple were ringing eight o'clock of the evening in the village called Willensdorf.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There was no way of knowing what was going on in his simple, indifferent mind.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.5113 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Ugric languages Hungarian Hungarian fiction
- LCC
- PZ3 .Z647 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
- BISAC
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- 85
- Popularity
- 378,346
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.90)
- Languages
- 6 — Catalan, English, French, Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 3
